Queen’s may be dribbling with history and tradition, but it maintains a surprisingly laid-back attitude. Technically, students can still order servants into the cellar to fetch them beer, but now prefer to go themselves – because the cellar’s a pub. The superb buildings, 600m from Carfax, dominate the High Street, and Queen’s quad and cupola (designed by celeb-architect Nicholas Hawksmoor) leave quite an impression. More northern students are attracted to Queen’s than most colleges and the atmosphere is refreshingly unpretentious.
| Sex ratio (M:F): 50:50 |
Founded: 1341 |
| Full-time u’grads: 300 |
Part-time: n/a |
| Postgrads: 150 |
Mature: n/a |
State:private school: 42:58
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International: n/a |
| Academic ranking: 7 |
Disabled: n/a |
Bar – the Beer Cellar (cap. 150) – with friendly staff and slap-up dinners preceded by fanfare and afternoon teas; Queen’s Hall (cap. 350) and JCR (75) used for ents and bands; ball every three years; Library (200,000 books); 12 computers, 24hrs; JCR with pool, TV and snackage. Anglican chapel with talented mixed recording choir. Drama and medical socs; strong musical streak. Queen’s students’ sport of choice is darts; tennis/netball courts and football/hockey pitches (a mile away), gym, track, multigym, squash courts, bowling green, pavilion. Annual sports day with bouncy castle and tug-of-war with gentleman rivals, St Edmund Hall. Everyone lives in College halls or flats, some self-catering, dining hall. LGBT group; LGBT, Minorities, Welfare, Men’s and Women’s Officers; academic and food reps, doctor and nurse. Bursaries, scholarships and hardship funds, oh my. Open days May-June.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
Rowan Atkinson (comedian); Jeremy Bentham (philosopher); Tim Berners-Lee (invented the www); Edmund Halley (named some comet); Henry V (king); Gerald Kaufman MP (Lab); Oliver Sacks (writer, psychiatrist); Brian Walden (journalist).